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In several states, particularly Ohio and Iowa, encouragement 

 of farm woodlot production is the chief forestry problem. The 

 forestry agencies direct particular attention to this phase of the 

 work, issuing bulletins, giving advice as consultants, making farm 

 woodlot demonstrations and otherwise assisting the farmer. States 

 maintaining state nurseries with a surplus of seedlings are in a position 

 to help the farmer reforest denuded areas on his farm. 



This work, however, is still in the process of development. The 

 details of cooperation between foresters and the already constituted 

 agricultural extension agencies have still largely to be worked out. 

 The Forest Service is studying this activity, and already an impor- 

 tant start has been made to bring the farm woodlot into the important 

 position it should hold with relation to the forest problem. 



TREES WITH FAMOUS NAMES 



Although many millions of trees people the forests of the United 

 States doing their economic duty, a few have been singled out by 

 history to play famous parts and to stand as individual memorials to 

 great events in the life of America. Symbolizing, fully as well as a 

 tablet or pillar could do, some significant achievement, these trees 

 represent the peculiar fitness of trees as memorials, and it is specially 

 appropriate that they should have a Hall of Fame of their own. 



Some distinguished trees stand out by reason of their age, such as 

 the General Sherman Sequoia in the Sequoia National Park of Cali- 

 fornia, whose age is reckoned at 40 centuries, and whose diameter 

 is 36^2 feet and towering height 280 feet. Many of the redwoods and 

 sequoias are nearly equally as venerable as this one representative. 



When Charles Sumner was Senator from Massachusetts he sent 

 an acorn from a tree near the tomb of Washington at Mount Vernon 

 to the Czar of Russia. This acorn grew to an oak in the palace grounds 

 at Petrograd, and in turn produced an acorn that was planted in the 

 White House grounds in Washington in 1904. In Washington there 

 are to be found other famous trees, including the Treaty Oak under 

 whose branches an important treaty was signed with the Indians. 



While the Washington Elm in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where 

 the General was supposed to have taken over command of the Colonial 

 Army, is no more, a tablet marks the spot where it stood so long to 



